'Justified' in the Bible
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
"Therefore let it be known to you, men [and] brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and from all [the things] from which you were not able to be justified by the law of Moses,
But [when] Paul was about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it was some crime or wicked villainy, O Jews, {I would have been justified in accepting} your complaint.
May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, "In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged."
being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,
For we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
And [those] whom he predestined, these [he] also called, and [those] whom he called, these [he] also justified, and [those] whom he justified, these [he] also glorified.
And some of you were these [things], but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law {no human being will be justified}.
But if [while] seeking to be justified by Christ, [we] ourselves also have been found [to be] sinners, then [is] Christ an agent of sin? May it never be!
Now [it is] clear that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because "the one who is righteous will live by faith."
So then, the law became our guardian until Christ, in order that we could be justified by faith.
You are estranged from Christ, [you] who are attempting to be justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.
so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works [when he] offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
And likewise was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works [when she] welcomed the messengers and sent [them] out by a different route?